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 A new direction for iMOSAIC
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Executive Director's Report
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Members of the Integrative Medicine Consortium voted in June to wait until 2013 to hold the next joint medical conference, iMosaic, even after the success of the inaugural event this past April. (iMosaic is Integrative Medicine Offering Science-based Alternatives In Collaboration.)
AHMA is one of nine member organizations comprising the IMC membership and one of four IMC member-organizations to have done the work to put on iMosaic in Minneapolis. The joint decision to go on hiatus for a year results in a shift in AHMA's strategic direction. It will require a refocusing of energy and priorities.
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July/August
Chapter Events
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Ohio - Northeast Ohio
The next Chapter event will be Wednesday, August 17, at the Ahuja Medical Center. The featured topic will be Holistic Psychiatry.
Register online here. For more info, call Tamara Macdonald, N.D., Chapter President, at 330-460-5155.
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National Events
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July/August
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Welcome New & Renewing Members
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New Members
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Barry Elson
Leonard Melamed
Erin Murphy
Pentti Nupponen
Kim Thompson
Martha Tassinari
Denise Cooney Zajkowski
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Serving Others by Serving Ourselves
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Helping holistic practitioners heal: a core mission of the AHMA
by David Forbes, MD, AHMA President
Bring the gift of your presence to help kick off our new direction of AHMA Healing Retreats! As we have been discussing over these past months, we view the core foundational aspect of holistic health practice to be our own work on self-healing.
Our ability to effectively serve our fellow human beings inevitably emanates from knowing the territory within ourselves. Thus, we see the AHMA's core mission as...
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| The Healer Within | 
A restorative weekend for all of us
You do so much for others.
Do something for yourself.
October 14-16, 2011 - Petaluma, CA
A retreat designed for
licensed medical practitioners
At The Healer Within, you will learn how to access a higher level
of healing power through imagery, meditation and visioning. Create your own mission and vision statements to move forward in your life in a way that serves you, your family and those you care for. Transform the way you take care of yourself and others. Register here
For more information, call Steve Cadwell at 216-292-6644 or write steve@holisticmedicine.org
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A New Look for the AHMA Online
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AHMA launches new website and e-newsletter
www.holisticmedicine.org
Our new website offers greater capabilities, tracks referrals for our members from the online Find a Doctor/Provider and provides additional member features including...
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We Want to Shine the Spotlight on You! - Would you like to be profiled in the new website's Member Spotlight?
- Have a patient success story to share?
- Read or authored a book you'd like to discuss?
- Want to comment on a topical trend or write something about holistic health?
Share your news with us and be featured online and/or in our e-news. Contact Education & Outreach Director Terri DiPaola at 216-292-6644 or by email at terri@holisticimedicine.org.
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| AHMA Attends cIMc 2011 |  AlterMed Research Foundation's third conference is a success
AlterMed Research Foundation partnered with longtime AHMA friend and past-president Scott Shannon, M.D., as course director, to present the Colorado Integrative Medicine Conference in Estes Park, Colo., July 15-17. Hundreds of integrative medicine thought leaders, holistic practitioners and guests attended this evidence-based CME conference, cIMc 2011 taught effective tools to manage anxiety, stress, pain, depression, and addictions via natural and effective approaches to mindset, lifestyles and diet/nutrition.
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| Self Induced Healing and Remarkable Recoveries |  What can we learn from spontaneous healing?
by Bernie Siegel, MD
The reason that medicine has not explored the issue of self-healing and patients who exceed survival expectations is that we either give the treatment the credit, or refer to them as miracles or spontaneous remissions. Medicine does not study success because one cannot learn from spontaneous events, but when one thinks of these cases as unique to the patient and self-induced, you are more likely to ask the patient for their story and learn about survival behavior. Read More...
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Earth Centered Medicine
| Step One: Being Grounded and Embodied
by Tom Weaver, MD
Member ReflectionsLike any journey, the journey of recovery begins with this single step. In a nutshell: "I can't do it alone" I need to find a power greater than myself, God as I understand the Creator, the group, something bigger than my own EGO, to create Good Orderly Direction in my life. An attitude of gratitude for my being present to my loved ones, my Creator, and taking good care of my body and self, is what I reflect on today. When I called the AHMA recently, staff member Terri Di Paola mentioned she took a bike ride along a trail from Cleveland to Akron, OH. Akron is the birthplace of the 12-step program where, in June, 1935, Dr. Bob and Bill W. met to support each other in their recovery. So, when I planned a Fathers Day journey to Read More...
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The Birth of Holistic Medicine & The AHMA
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Father of holistic medicine
Evarts Greene Loomis, MD
Today, holistic/integrative medicine is gaining momentum and interest both from the public and within the healthcare community, thanks, in part, to a visionary doctor, Evarts Greene Loomis, MD (1910-2003) widely regarded as the father of holistic medicine. Loomis was an internationally known homeopathic physician, surgeon, author and lecturer.
Preferring to be called Evarts rather than "doctor," he was inspired to conceptualize holistic medicine while a young doctor working for the Grenfell Mission (traveling by dog sled and boat when necessary) which served the fisherman families of Newfoundland and Labrador. "It was out of the ethers, or perhaps from God, that the words 'Treat the whole man...
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